Busily

"Busily" in a Sentence (13 examples)

He is busily at work.

Mother was busily cooking; in the meantime, I was just watching TV.

I spent that day listening to the lonely scrapings of a pen. During that time, from time to time, I heard a Java sparrow twittering. It occurred to me that maybe Java sparrows twitter out of loneliness too. I walked out to the veranda to see. Nevertheless, flying to and fro between two perches busily and incessantly, it did not show the slightest hint of grievance.

I was busily typing for the whole morning.

For a day or two we were busily employed in unpacking and laying out our property to the best advantage. That done, we gradually began to settle down and to accommodate ourselves to our new surroundings.

He shut himself up in the study all day, where I could see through the window that he was writing busily.

Bees are busily collecting nectar from flowers and turning it into honey.

Bees busily collect nectar from flowers and turn it into honey.

Bees are busily collecting nectar in the meadow.

Thus buoyed up, he floated on the waves like a merman, or like an angler's dobber, until he landed safely on a rock, where he was found the next morning busily drying his many breeches in the sunshine.

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But these sweet thoughts do ever refresh my labours,/ Most busil'est when I do it.

Look at the little fellows, mere bundles of fluff, paddling along so busily and sturdily.

Quite a crowd of townspeople turned out to see the train start, and several pressmen were busily engaged in taking notes and photographs.

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